Sun Ce spread out the map and marked out the positions of several enemies. While chatting with Jiang Gan, he was thinking about ways to defeat the enemy.

After a while, Guo Jia also came. He selected eighteen people from the teenagers recruited by Jiang Qin, arranged tasks, and asked them to rest. He would set off tomorrow morning. Seeing that the lights were still on in Sun Ce's tent, he came over to take a look.

Sun Ce told him the situation. Guo Jia said: "General, we are short of troops and need allies. I suggest contacting Tao Qian and the Yellow Turban Army immediately."

Sun Ce agreed, and Jiang Gan also agreed. He also reminded Sun Ce that there were some Yellow Turbans near Qiao County, which were not Liu Pi, Wu Ba and others, and they had their own strength. They were large and average in strength. They wandered around the borders of the four counties of Chen, Liang, Pei and Runan, and plundered the people. After Kong Yichang's death, although Sun Jian took over as the governor of Yuzhou, he did not manage the government in Yuzhou for most of the time. Yuzhou was in a state of no coordination. The prefects of each county shirked responsibility for each other, and no one was willing to do their best, so these Yellow Turbans still have room for survival.

Among them, one of them was a general named Ge Sheng, with more than 3,000 families, and he was the leader of this group.

Sun Ce had an impression of Ge Sheng. He met him when he met the Yellow Turban leader during the day. Ge Sheng was in his fifties, and he didn't look amazing and didn't talk much. He sat among the dozen Yellow Turban leaders without any attention. Sun Ce didn't pay special attention to him at the time. After hearing what Jiang Gan said, he realized that Ge Sheng was actually a character.

After hearing Sun Ce's doubts, Jiang Gan smiled. "The general is coming a little late. If he had seen Ge Sheng a year ago, he would not be like this now."

"Why, what happened this year?"

Jiang Gan became energetic and started to tell the story.

Last spring, the governor of Yuzhou Kong Yichang died of illness, and then the war between Sun Jian and Zhou Yu fought against Yuzhou, and Zhou Yu was defeated. Although Sun Jian won, he did not take up his post in Yuzhou and did not place the Yellow Turbans in Yuzhou. Ge Sheng and others became interested and gathered together to conquer the cities and plunder the land. He first ran around Yilu and Xinyang, succeeded one after another, and gradually moved to the vicinity of Qiao County, but unexpectedly he fell into trouble here.

There is a ranger named Xu Chu in Qiao County. He gathered thousands of clan families and some young men of the ranger, built a base to defend themselves, and refused to surrender to Ge Sheng. Ge Sheng gathered several leaders, with a total of more than 10,000 troops to besiege Xu Chu. Because of the obvious gap in military strength, Xu Chu slowly couldn't support it, so he sent someone to ask for peace and said that he would use the cow to exchange food for the food. Ge Sheng agreed, but the cow came to the front of the formation, but refused to follow the Yellow Turban Army and ran back. Then Xu Chu grabbed the cow's tail and pulled the cow back, and returned it to the Yellow Turban Army, which shocked all the Yellow Turban Army.

The next story is simple. No Yellow Turban general dared to fight against Xu Chu. In addition, Xu Chu had no grain and was profitable, so they quickly scattered. Because they did not plunder enough spoils, Ge Sheng starved to death in one spring, and his strength was greatly reduced. He was shocked by Xu Chu's courage to pull the oxtail, his personality changed drastically, and he became much more humble.

Halfway through Jiang Gan's words, Sun Ce remembered. Xu Chu was from Qiao County, but among the local tyrants he met yesterday, he didn't see Xu Chu, and he didn't even hear his name, so he didn't remember it for a while.

"General wants to recruit Xu Chu?" Jiang Gan suddenly saw Sun Ce's thoughts.

"Do Ziyi think it's feasible?"

"It's possible, nor can it be done." Jiang Gan moved his body and lay more comfortable. "The Xu family in Qiao County and Pingyu Xu family have the same lineage. It's a bit of a relationship. The general and Xu Shao are so irresistible that they almost offended the entire Xu family. Xu Chu may not be willing to vote for you. However, Xu Chu is a martial artist after all, and he has no contact with Xu Shao. The so-called support or opposition is only moral. As long as the general is willing to treat him with sincerity, he may not be able to recruit him successfully, so the problem is not this."

“What’s the problem?”

"Xu Chu is not an ordinary ranger. He is a local powerful man in Qiao County. He has family business and land, so that he can gather thousands of clan families and hundreds of martial arts robbers around him. If the general cannot meet his expectations, he will not be able to join the general. He is not Dianzigu, just have a meal."

Sun Ce smiled. Jiang Gan talked for a long time, but in fact he had only one meaning. He reminded him in disguise not to seize land, just like when he persuaded Li Tong to surrender. He could understand Jiang Gan's concerns. Xu Chu was not Dian Wei. Dian Wei was a standard poor man with no family background. He knew no more than a basket of big words. He was famous but not only had a word, but also had no partners. Xu Chu had no culture, but he was a local tyrant. He not only had a huge clan, but also a ranger who was willing to follow him. His strength was SARS Wei Kebi.

To be honest, his starting point is higher than Sun Jian, but he does not have the opportunity and talent for military use like Sun Jian.

"It doesn't matter to me whether you can recruit Xu Chu. Are Ge Sheng and the others related to the Qingzhou Yellow Turban?"

"I really don't know this. But the Yellow Turbans in the world are family, and even if they don't know each other, they are convenient to speak."

Sun Ce understood. He told Guo Jia that he wanted to contact the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans. He heard Liu Pi and Gong Du said that since last year, the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans have been planning to attack Yanzhou, attempting to advance westward, and meet with the Yellow Turbans in Henoi and Hedong. They were interested in Sun Ce's plan to recruit the Yellow Turbans to Jiangnan for military farming, but they were not very enthusiastic. But they didn't take any action for some reason.

Now, it's time for them to act.

In Sun Ce's memory, Cao Cao started his business because he surrendered the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans. The Qingzhou soldiers later became an important armed force under Cao Cao. The Qingzhou Yellow Turbans were very powerful. They not only killed Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou, but also defeated Cao Cao in the early days. Now Cao Cao is far away from Guanzhong, and there is no one in Yanzhou that can be replaced for the time being. Qingzhou Yellow Turbans can play a greater role, and it is definitely no problem to restrain Liu Dai.

Guo Jia agreed with Sun Ce's opinion, but he felt that he should contact Tao Qian first. The Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou are crowded with people, but it is not unreasonable to be called bandits. They have poor equipment and almost no logistics supply. They can grab wherever they go. If the food problem cannot be solved, recruiting them may cause trouble. Xuzhou is a very ideal choice. Xuzhou has fertile land and rich products, and can provide a large amount of food. Moreover, Tao Qian needs help to deal with the Xuzhou family. If the Yellow Turban troops can be combined with the food in Xuzhou, it can play a greater role.
Chapter completed!